The  automation  mode enables you to record and draw automation curves into lanes. Automation lanes can emit CC messages, control the effect parameters of their track, and even output control voltages.

Each track can hold up to 64 automation lanes, and each pattern of a track can have different automation events.

The automation screen is divided in lanes. Scroll to the bottom of the list, and click on "+ ADD". You will be prompted to choose a destination, which represents what you wish to automate.

Available destinations are:

• CC messages
• Pitchbend
• Aftertouch
• Program changes
• NRPN messages (Non-Registered Parameter Number)
• Pairs of CC messages (for 14 bit CC MSB/LSB)
• CV in (for recording purposes)
• CV out
• Effect parameters

Once the automation lane is created, simply Press some pads on the matrix to add or remove automation points (events).

 Tip  Hold  2ND  and Press a pad to put an event at the very end of the step for sharp transient:



In the example below, 6 automation lanes are created on the current track:

• cc8 has events
• cc14 is locked
• aftertouch is muted
• CV out 2 has no events
• Pitchbend has a default value
• NRPN has events

 Tip  You can create a curve before selecting a destination. Simply Press some pads when "+ ADD" is selected. This will create a void lane, with no destination. You can click the lane and assign its destination later. This helps sketching out ideas quickly, and store curve shapes that you like for later use.

To modify the parameters of an existing automation point, Hold a pad filled with an event. Its value will be displayed on left screen and the pad color will change. Scroll the associated encoder to fine-tune displayed value (e.g. 0 to 127 for a midi CC message).

When performing a multiple selection, you will have access to the minimum and maximum values, as well as a parameter called centroid, which moves the central value of the curve:

Simply scroll to the desired automation in the list, and press  mute  to mute this automation lane.

 Note  Mutes are per-pattern based.

 Tip  When a lane is muted in the current pattern, the lane shows an "M" status icon.

When this parameter is active, you can quickly draw lines and curves using very few automation events. This saves memory and time, and can be easier for drawing certain shapes. Upon disabling this parameter, the sequencing becomes stepped, meaning that values will be held until the next change.

Interpolation ON:


Interpolation OFF:

The default status is always ON for automation lanes created manually. However, recorded automation are not interpolated by default, to keep the recording faithful to the original.

 Tip  Thanks to interpolation, which is active by default, you can draw a ramp using only two points :

Encoder ⑥ allows you to define a default value that will be used when the automation lane is empty. Automation events are stored per pattern.

Default values are useful to send fixed values, without the need of creating any automation event. It also allows to reset a parameter upon a pattern change.

Example : setting a default value of 0% on the pitchbend automation can be smart, to make sure that the pitchbend is reset upon switching to a pattern that does not automate pitchbend.





 Tip  If the default value is active on the current pattern, the lane will show the following status icon: "····"

Click on an automation lane to access additional features and actions :

Hold an encoder while "+ ADD" is highlighted to open a different context menu.

When REC O is active, you can record incoming data as an automation for the active track.

For MIDI messages recording, such as CC, pitchbend or aftertouch, the lanes are created automatically, as soon as a event is received (with interpolation set to OFF) :



For CV in recording, lanes must be created before recording.

 Note  Recording of program changes and NRPN messages is not supported.

 Tip  To prevent overwriting a lane with incoming data, you may use the "Lock" function (see context-menu above).

 Tip  Regardless of the ‘destination’ (CC, CV, etc.), you can store 1 data point each clock tick. Hapax has a resolution of 192ppqn (192 ticks per quarter note), which means that at 120BPM clock ticks are 2.6ms apart, resulting in a sampling frequency of 384Hz, which according the Nyquist Sampling Theorem means a maximum frequency of 192Hz can be captured.

TL;DR: For a given tempo, the maximum frequency that can be captured is: f = 192 * (BPM / 120)